England's wickets tumble

England suffered a chastening start to their tour of Pakistan, losing a string of early wickets after electing to bat in their opening match against a Patron's team at the Pindi Stadium.

Marcus Trescothick (40no) and Ashley Giles were the only source of solace for Michael Vaughan's team in a sorry total of 164 for eight at tea.

Andrew Strauss was the first casualty when he shouldered arms to a ball from Najaf Shah, which held its line to hit off stump.

Vaughan and Trescothick then had close calls. The captain was very nearly caught in front on the back foot on three by Najaf, before Trescothick edged past third slip off Mohammad Irshad with two more runs to his name.

After Vaughan was given out lbw against Najaf, Trescothick found himself fighting a lone battle to help England salvage a decent total.

Kevin Pietersen scored only two runs before spearing a drive to gully off Yasir Ali's third delivery - and Paul Collingwood went for a duck when he under-edged a pull at Yasir Arafat on to his middle-stump.

Ian Bell, coming in two places lower than he had in the Ashes, fared little better and became the fifth of six English batsmen to register a single-figure score.

Geraint Jones appeared to get some bat on an Arafat delivery after scoring two - but not enough to keep his stumps intact.

Trescothick found some belated support in the shape of Ashley Giles, who hit five fours, only to fall lbw to a flatter delivery from ex-Middlesex leg-spinner Imran Tahir a seventh-wicket stand of 38 was ended.